MOSCOW/CHISINAU, January 17 (RIA Novosti) – Moldova and Russia have agreed the price of $110 per 1,000 cubic meters for Russia's natural gas in the first quarter of 2006, the Russian energy giant said.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 06:27 GMT
MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti) – The flight recorders from a Russian tactical bomber that crashed Monday in the country's far-eastern Amur Region have been recovered, an Air Force spokesman said Tuesday.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 06:42 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have held bilateral negotiations in Moscow's Kremlin. The Iranian nuclear problem was one of the main issues of the talks.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 06:51 GMT
MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti)-Vladimir Putin has signed a law making the Kaliningrad Region, a Russian exclave surrounded by European Union countries on the Baltic Sea, a special economic zone, the Kremlin press service reported Monday.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 07:10 GMT
Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, famous for his eccentric habits, appears to have a pet tiger and lion. Animal rights activists have already raised concerns. The Chechen official says he intends to open a zoo in the war-torn republic.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 07:53 GMT
Key members of the U.N. Security Council have agreed that Iran must fully suspend its nuclear program, but came to no agreement on whether to refer the dispute for action by the council, while Russia's Putin still hopes for a compromise.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 08:00 GMT
TEHRAN, January 17 (RIA Novosti) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad demanded Tuesday that an order suspending U.S. news channel CNN from working in the country be reversed.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 08:02 GMT
MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti) – Russian tennis players at the Australian Open enjoyed a largely good second day at the first Grand Slam tennis event of the 2006 season.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 08:09 GMT
MOSCOW, January 17 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow energy systems are working to provide customers with heat as the weather temperatures plunged in Russia's capital to a bitter minus 27 degrees Celsius (-16.6 degrees Fahrenheit) Monday night, a spokesman for the Moscow regional utility Mosenergo said Tuesday.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 08:45 GMT
GROZNY, January 17 (RIA Novosti) – A total of 140 militants, including 25 ringleaders, were killed in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus in 2005, the local interior ministry said Tuesday.
// Jan. 17, 2006 - 08:49 GMT